[paulcole]

> plus I don't have to worry about who is watching my traffic.

Millions of people (myself included) use google and don't worry about this already. Online privacy isn't an issue (or a deal breaking feature) for the overwhelming majority of people.

DuckDuckGo may get niche business because their privacy stance, but it's not going to help them unseat Google.

[simbalion]

No you are right. It will be Google's continued inching toward a revised "do evil whenever it's profitable" business model that is going to unseat google. I mentioned DuckDuckGo because it seems it would be most likely to take the top search spot if Google were to die today.